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Ashby, Jeffrey S. – Journal of Drug Education, 1995
Examines the relationship between contextual variables and situational expectation of drug use at the school level. Results indicate that the more prosperous the school and the greater the students' perceptions of academic expectations, the lower the situational expectation of smoking cigarettes or taking depressants. However, the higher the…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Context Effect
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Crundall, Ian A. – Journal of Drug Education, 1992
Australian secondary school students from three grades rated danger of using alcohol, tobacco, inhalants, marijuana, and other illicit drugs. Results showed more refined discrimination among older students, with type of drug and frequency of use being important considerations. Familiarity was major consideration for younger students. Cognitive…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Drinking, Drug Use, Foreign Countries
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Watts, W. David; Ellis, Anne Marie – Journal of Drug Education, 1992
Explored relationship between drug and alcohol abuse and eating disorders in female adolescents (n=826). Eating Disorders Risk Scale was adopted and correlated with drug and alcohol use, other forms of deviance, family and peer relationships, and depression. Findings support concept of generalized theory of addictions based on psychosocial,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Depression (Psychology), Drug Abuse
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Donnermeyer, Joseph F.; Huang, Tung Chung – Journal of Drug Education, 1991
Examined interactive nature of age in predicting alcohol, marijuana, and drug use among 435 seventh and eleventh graders. Found statistically significant interaction terms for age with peer and social control factors for each type of usage. Findings suggest that many factors commonly associated with adolescent usage may be conditioned by age.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Alcohol Abuse, Drinking, Drug Use
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Baklien, Bergljot – Journal of Drug Education, 1993
Survey of drug education in Norwegian lower secondary schools showed that almost one-fourth of programs were based on two-step model. Intensive courses were socially successful and created motivation, enthusiasm, and changes of attitudes. Found important differences from one school to another in regard to how pilot pupils, and their teaching…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Drug Education, Foreign Countries, Motivation
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Watts, W. David; Ellis, Ann Marie – Journal of Drug Education, 1993
Surveyed adolescent females (n=1,324) in grades 7 through 12 to examine relationship between drinking, drug use, and sexual abuse. Girls who reported sexual molestation were more likely to have used number of drugs, different from prevalence profile of larger sample. Significant correlations for younger girls between sexual molestation and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Delinquency, Drinking
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Mirzaee, Elaheh; And Others – Journal of Drug Education, 1991
Assessed amount of information eighth and tenth grade students (n=1,023) received from 10 sources about 6 categories of drugs. Found television was the primary source of drug information for all drugs except inhalants; parents and printed media were of secondary importance, followed by friends and teachers. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Friendship, Grade 10, Grade 8
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Pruitt, B. E.; And Others – Journal of Drug Education, 1991
Sampled 1,004 eighth and tenth graders in 23 rural communities to examine peer influence and drug use. Students who perceived higher degree of drug use among friends and who received more information about drugs from friends used drugs more frequently. Findings support theory that peer pressure is related to drug abuse. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drug Use, Friendship, Grade 10
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Collingwood, Thomas R.; And Others – Journal of Drug Education, 1991
Adolescents (n=74) in schools, community, or hospital drug intervention programs received eight- to nine-week structured fitness activity class as part of programs. Subjects who improved in fitness tests also demonstrated significant increase in self-concept risk factor and significant decrease in anxiety and depression risk factors compared to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Drug Rehabilitation, Drug Use
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Barnea, Zipora; And Others – Journal of Drug Education, 1993
Examined hypothesis that use of psychoactive substances is strongly associated with social deviance. Investigated patterns of alcohol and drug use among 97 juvenile delinquents, 184 detached youth, and 8,151 high school students in Israel. Results clearly indicated that psychoactive substance use was concentrated among Israeli groups of deviant…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Anxiety, Delinquency
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Dielman, T. E.; And Others – Journal of Drug Education, 1993
Surveyed 1,340 students in grades 6 through 12 to test model of antecedents of adolescent alcohol use/misuse. Found that two largest direct effects on both adolescent alcohol use and misuse were from susceptibility to peer pressure and peer use and approval of alcohol use. Other predictors, including parental behaviors, were significant when…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Drinking, Family Relationship
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Houghton, Stephen; Odgers, Pete; Carroll, Annemaree – Journal of Drug Education, 1998
Data pertaining to the reputations, self-concepts, and coping strategies of secondary-school Volatile Solvent Users (VSUs; n=31), ex-VSUs (n=44), and non-VSUs (n=48) in Western Australia were obtained. Findings reveal that differences between the groups were more attributable to reputation enhancement than to self-concept or coping strategies.…
Descriptors: Coping, Inhalants, Reputation, Secondary Education
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Younoszai, Tina M.; Lorhmann, David K.; Seefeldt, Carol A.; Greene, Robert – Journal of Drug Education, 1999
Discusses a school-based prevention program initiated to reduce alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use among adolescents. Investigates changes in reported ATOD use from 1987 to 1991. Significant decreases were found for use of most drugs with the exception of alcohol. Involvement in problem behaviors was the most salient risk factor whereas…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Cocaine, Drinking
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Erhard, Rachel – Journal of Drug Education, 1999
Examines whether peer-led drug prevention programs are preferable to adult-led programs for students (N=2,447) in eighth through eleventh grades. Results show that all input measures and outcome measures were perceived as more positive in the peer-led model. Since the differences found were small this study does not prove with certainty that the…
Descriptors: Adults, Drug Abuse, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
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Long, Welsey; Vaughn, Courtney – Journal of Drug Education, 1999
A year-long qualitative study examined seven formerly-addicted alcoholic youth committed to recovery to determine how addicted youth become and remain sober. Bending to social stress, including racism and ethnic prejudice, three participants relapsed. However, personal commitment augmented by familial, community, spiritual, and educational support…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcoholism, Community Influence, Family Influence